The cult of Rocky Horror the selling of Sicko a remake of 13 Tzameti and more movie questions answeredSend your movie questions to FlickChickSee Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this weeks new flicks in Movie TalkHear Maitland on the weekly TVGuide Talk podcastQuestion Do you think The Rocky Horror Picture Show would still be considered a classic if the midnight screenings with audience participation had never occurred LisaFlickChick Im not sure that anyone considers The Rocky Horror Picture Show 1975 a classic now but its a major league cult item and I dont think that would be the case had it not been for the audience participation factor I can tell you from my own experience that I saw it when it opened and thought it was simultneously dull and camp and that some of the voices especially Susan Sarandons were so unsuited to the music that they were hard to listen to Granted I saw the original Broadway production of The Rocky Horror Show and t
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Send your movie questions to FlickChickThe ice-cold thriller 13 Tzameti was one of my favorite films of last year and now that its on DVD I hope it will find an audience I put it on my five-best list compiled under pressure by the way because I hate the reductiveness of lists but thats another discussion and the overwhelming response from readers was Ive never heard of it That started some discussion about the difference between what critics like and what normal people like Feel free to weigh in But I think the real problem with 13 Tzameti is nothing more or less than that it got such a limited release that lots of moviegoers who would have loved it never got the chance to see it Its in black-and-white and a foreign language two foreign languages actually French and Georgian And thats a kiss-of-death double whammy in the current marketplace Why Beats me I really dont find reading subtitles so onerous and in my experience theyre far better done t
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